Worst Produced Segments/Matches/Etc.

[Gawk Rivers]

The absolute worst I've ever seen is a TNA weekly PPV where Roddy Piper was screaming outside a hospital on a windy day and you couldn't hear shit except a sweet wind ASMR

[arrogantmodel]

Apr 25, 2019 10:54:40 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Apr 25, 2019 10:51:54 GMT -5 David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 said:

Oh man, that is just terrible in so many ways.

Everybody got injured from that match.

Wasn't it in a junkyard? And the winner had to escape the junkyard?

Honestly, this and the Punjabi Prison would be fun in the video games.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Apr 25, 2019 15:54:00 GMT -5 arrogantmodel said:

Apr 25, 2019 10:54:40 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Everybody got injured from that match.

Wasn't it in a junkyard? And the winner had to escape the junkyard?

Honestly, this and the Punjabi Prison would be fun in the video games.

The junkyard was one of the many reasons why Russo needed a filter.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

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[RedSmile]

My first thought was Brawl For All, where WWE wanted to showcase the legit toughness from dudes their roster, and specifically Steve Williams, what they got was a lot of injuries and embarrassment outside of maybe Bart Gunn, whom they promptly fed to Butterbean for no good reason.

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

Apr 25, 2019 16:31:36 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Apr 25, 2019 15:54:00 GMT -5 arrogantmodel said:

Wasn't it in a junkyard? And the winner had to escape the junkyard?

Honestly, this and the Punjabi Prison would be fun in the video games.

The junkyard was one of the many reasons why Russo needed a filter.

While I agree with the sentiment, I also feel the urge to point out that Russo wasn’t actually there yet at that point. Now Vampiro and the Kiss Demon fighting in a graveyard, sure.

[chazraps]

Super obscure, but here we go:

Spring/Summer 2010 and Jack Swagger is your new World Heavyweight Champion. He's given a series of Smackdown brief clips where he's talking directly to the camera and showing off his now more-nuanced personality. Most of these are really good, and arguably the best solo Swagger vignettes ever filmed.

However.

There's one at a Smackdown where they're either in Oklahoma or at one of Oklahoma's top rivals. Swagger expresses how proud he is of his Oklahoma ties and offers to since the "Boomer Sooner" fight song. So far so good, could get some heel heat if he does it well or poorly, not a whole lot of ways it can go wrong.

Here's the way they found to mess it up.

Jack is a lot of things, but a musician capable of rhythm and counting measures isn't one of them. This was also during a time when WWE was going super hard on adding everything in post production, which you really can't do with music in a backstage scene. Relying solely on Swagger being able to keep tempo and count measure in his head, he starts singing (in a pre-taped vignette on an episode that's being tapes as it is) and clearly does it a capella. Then, prior to air the "Boomer Sooner" instrumental is added and the whole segment goes on with the music beginning to play, dubbed in behind him at a wildly wrong time. Like, it's not a little off, it's substantially off, like he's doing the words during the intro and the whole thing doesn't sync up in the slightest.

It's a shocking example of how something can be massively underproduced and overproduced at the same time. Considering it was a throwaway skit without any sort of bearing on any angle or match, yet I still remember it nine (!) years later should tell you what a massive screw-up this was.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Apr 25, 2019 6:45:19 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

- Jeff Hardy's thoughts backstage can be heard by the audience, which I say is tied with a backstage brawl that stops when someone yells "and cut", with the wrestlers just standing around, no longer fighting, while we at home hear this audio cue. I cannot stress enough that this was NOT live.

Isn't that the one when he was chasing after someone and then they stop and you see the person he was chasing come back on camera and they are laughing or some shit ?

[HMARK Center]

Apr 25, 2019 13:31:43 GMT -5 KobashiChop said:

Apr 25, 2019 12:05:54 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

I don’t think it was acting lol, Barnette was such a prick for interrupting the match for an accident.

Barnett really didn't need to get after him but White managed to salvage it and get great heat out of it.

Indeed; I was in the crowd, and White was drawing obscene heat the whole match since he was facing amazing babyface Juice Robinson to begin with, but then after the Barnett moment it had people ready to riot against Jay. And, either way, it wasn't a produced segment, it was a big misunderstanding that Jay leveraged into enormous heel heat...and the pop when Juice won was fan-friggin'-tastic.

As for planned/produced segments, here's a couple that stick out to me:

-Brawl for All DEFINITELY deserves mention. What the hell did anybody think would happen, and what else is there to say about it?

-TNA and the "electrified cage" match between Team 3D and LAX. Super uncomfortable racist overtones aside, how were you going to ever make that look good?

-My favorite pro wrestling channel surfing moment ever: flicking through channels on a Monday and seeing Big Show on the ground, rolling around in pain and groaning in his unique Big Show timbre, with Kane behind him yelling "Show! SHOW! SHOOOOOOW!!!" like it's a Metal Gear Solid game over screen. I kind of chuckle at how silly it looked with no context, channel surf for a few more minutes, maybe five minutes later scroll back to USA...AND IT'S STILL BIG SHOW ON THE GROUND GROANING WHILE KANE SCREAMS "SHOOOOOW!!!"
I'm pretty sure I nearly passed out laughing.

[XaviersSS2015hair]

This bugs me to this day that I can't remember what the hell show or if it was even WWF or WCW that I attended. I attended a show in the late 90s and they had a cage hanging above the ring all night that was never used at any point for any reason. Not even in a dark match. Somebody went out of their way to set up that cage and have it lifted above the ring for absolutely zero reason.

[somsta]

Apr 25, 2019 16:31:36 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Apr 25, 2019 15:54:00 GMT -5 arrogantmodel said:

Wasn't it in a junkyard? And the winner had to escape the junkyard?

Honestly, this and the Punjabi Prison would be fun in the video games.

The junkyard was one of the many reasons why Russo needed a filter.

The junkyard invitational was several months Pre-Russo.

[somsta]

There was that Kid Cam segment on Nitro that included Lex Luger making fun of the lines he was saying and the production crew calling cut.

[Paul]

Apr 25, 2019 23:44:11 GMT -5 somsta said:

There was that Kid Cam segment on Nitro that included Lex Luger making fun of the lines he was saying and the production crew calling cut.

Honestly that made the segment so much better than it otherwise would've been.

[illiniman88]

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Kennel from Hell.

Rabid dogs humpin' and dumpin'

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Apr 25, 2019 10:54:17 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

WWE ruining the Orton-Wyatt match by having the stupid horror graphics in the match while they were wrestling. It killed the match.

That could have worked, had it actually had a payoff. All they needed to do was have a graphic of vipers pop up, Bray just stop and look confused, and Orton immediately hit the RKO to win the match.

[XaviersSS2015hair]

Apr 26, 2019 5:44:54 GMT -5 illiniman88 said:

Wow I knew nothing about this until now. I cannot believe that actually aired that on TV. I can't think of a more WCW thing.

[Shark]

Bayley "This is Your Life!" Just a whole segment designed to make Bayley look like complete garbage. It went on forever, Alexa can usually make something decent on the mic work, but she couldn't make this at all interesting. I on;y saw it the once, but I don't even think Bayley got to retaliate by even throwing a single punch.